Teachers professional development should increase be increased by using digital tools and innovative teaching methods to improve students’ competencies, keep track of their progress, evaluate their performance and achievements. Digital tools and innovative teaching methods used to track students’ progress and evaluate their achievementa not only will enhance them to develop learning to learn competence, admit one’s responsibility for the successful performance, observe personal growth but also motivates students to learn, acquire knowledge, and apply it in practice. The use of innovative teaching methods will encourage students of different abilities being engaged in learning process, gaining knowledge and admitting responsibility for their personal performance and achievements.
The goal of Vilnius Gabijas Gymnasium is to improve students’ personal performance by providing high-quality education. The objectives are based on constant analysis and increase of keeping track of students’ performance and self-evaluation creating conditions to reveal individual abilities and meet special needs of every student. In order to improve skills in keeping track of students’ performance, evaluating achievements and developing learning competence, teachers decided to acquire knowledge how to use innovative, digital tools in the classes of different subjects to track and assess students’ performance. Having attended courses/done teaching assignments Student Performance Evaluation form(s) will be created to be used as a tool to increase students learning motivation based on abilities students possess and progress they make. Intention, attitude and ability of teachers to plan and tailor learning to meet needs of different students are key factors seeking successful performance of every student. Teachers professional development, increase of general and subject specific competences, differentiated and personalized teaching are the most relevant ways to make students perform successfully in classes.